Begin with Vocab Warm-up - quiz Friday YOU NEED YOUR NETBOOK TODAY!!!

Begin by looking through your writer’s notebook. Which poem do you feel has the most promise? - What is your connection to that poem? - What makes this the best poem to choose?

Now, you’ve got several poems to choose from Read over your poems Choose the one you want to take to final copy It needs to be at least 15 lines long It needs to tell a complete story It needs to include sensory imagery in the form of adjectival and/or adverbial phrases

Revision Decisions: All writers revise. We will spend the next few days looking at specific aspects of our poems and making some revision decisions. Today, we are looking at line breaks. The line is the most important unit of meaning in a poem. Poets revise line breaks to explore emerging poems. Line breaks add emphasis to important words that impact the poem’s meaning. Poets create line breaks to help a reader read the poem.

Touched by An Angel by Maya Angelou We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life. Love arrives and in its train come ecstasies old memories of pleasure ancient histories of pain. Yet if we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls. We are weaned from our timidity In the flush of love's light we dare be brave And suddenly we see that love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in] BY e. e. CUMMINGS i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i am never without it(anywhere i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling) i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true) and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?

How did these poets use line breaks? What punctuation decisions did they make?., -- ? Ø

Poets often use: Repeated words Power word at the end of line (instead of car, use Mustang. Instead of flower, use carnation) Single word lines

The cold cuts to the bone, silent. One lone crow sits, waiting for some unsuspecting animal to fall into his clutches. The town is slowly waking up from sleep, as the sun begins to rise and warm the frigid air. Soon, life will begin all around the farmhouse, but for now, it is quiet and peaceful and asleep.

As the poet, you have complete control over the patterns, punctuation and line breaks. You control the capitalization and line formations.

Your Turn: Look at the poem you chose to take to final copy. Today and tomorrow, you are going to redraft it two times making line breaks to emphasize words, create patterns, create emphasis where needed. Try breaks one way and then re-draft the poem trying the line breaks a different way. These will go in Google Classroom. Due Thursday at midnight.